Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan might have hidden methods in the Soul Realm and revealed that Xun Er had refined Origin Emperor Qi, bringing her closer to becoming a Dou Emperor. He then told the Pill Tower Ancestor the truth about his fall and his agreement with Xiao Jin’s father, before producing a mysterious pill to fulfill that agreement.

• Xiao Jin told Gu Yuan to pause the search for the Soul Realm and explained the danger of confronting the Soul Clan there.
• Xiao Jin revealed that Xun Er had refined Origin Emperor Qi and needed to break through two more stars to reach the Dou Emperor realm.
• Gu Yuan agreed to keep the Origin Emperor Qi secret and left to call off the Ancient Emperor Clans.
• Xiao Jin isolated himself and the Pill Tower Ancestor behind Dou Qi and Soul Barriers, then explained that the Ancestor’s failed Emperor Grade Pill had nearly destroyed his soul.
• Xiao Jin revealed that Cang Yuan had rescued the Pill Tower Ancestor, made him Xiao Jin’s guardian and alchemy teacher, and promised to restore his soul and strength.
• Xiao Jin presented an ethereal pill, saying it was time for his father to fulfill his promise.

Xiao Jin gave the Pill Tower Ancestor an Emperor Grade Pill and learned of a Space Auction that might hold clues about the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He decided to attend with Xun Er and Cai Lin to investigate how another Bodhi Ancient Tree could exist.

• Xiao Jin gave the Pill Tower Ancestor a Divine Soul Recovery Pill infused with Origin Emperor Qi to restore his soul and strength.
• Xiao Jin told the Pill Tower Ancestor that he had reached the Mid-Seven-Star Dou Sheng level and explained his plans to adapt to his new body and power.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor invited Xiao Jin to a major Space Auction where the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would be sold.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed that the auction would also offer clues about the Bodhi Ancient Tree, prompting Xiao Jin to question how one could have appeared outside his body centuries earlier.
• Xiao Jin asked the Pill Tower Ancestor for the Pill Tower's invitation and decided to attend the auction with Xun Er and Cai Lin.

Xiao Jin learned that the Soul Hall had ordered the Space Auction organizers to surrender a powerful Soul Origin, putting their reputation and safety at risk. He agreed to protect them in exchange for information about the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor stopped Xiao Jin from refining more pills and told him that Venerable Kongxuan was waiting to see him.
• Venerable Kongxuan explained that the upcoming Space Auction included a Soul Origin capable of raising a soul directly to Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Xiao Jin learned that the Soul Hall had threatened Kongxuan Sect, Earth-Walking Sect, and Treasure Appraisal Mountain to hand over the Soul Origin.
• Venerable Kongxuan asked Xiao Jin to protect the auction organizers, offering information about the Bodhi Ancient Tree in return.
• Xiao Jin accepted the deal.

Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor concluded that the Soul Clan’s demand for the Soul Origin was a scheme meant to draw the alliance’s forces toward the Pill Tower. Xiao Jin decided to attend the Space Auction despite the danger, leaving the Pill Tower Ancestor to prepare for a possible attack.

• Xiao Jin agreed with the Pill Tower Ancestor that Venerable Kongxuan’s warning might be bait designed to make the Kongxuan Sect seek the Pill Tower’s help.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor explained that the Pill Tower had fewer Dou Saints than the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the allied Ancient Emperor Clan.
• Xiao Jin confirmed that the Pill Tower Ancestor had recovered his Late Nine-Star Dou Sheng strength and decided to ask Xiao Xuan to guard the Space Auction.
• Xiao Jin warned that the Soul Clan might attack the Pill Tower while he was away, but said he still needed to attend the auction and investigate the scheme.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor agreed to Xiao Jin’s plan and told him to bring Cai Lin and Xun Er as support.

Xiao Jin, Xun Er, and Cai Lin arrived at the desert where the Space Auction was being held and encountered Xiao Yan and Yao Chen. Xiao Yan revealed his rapid cultivation and new Demon Phoenix Wings, while Xiao Jin confirmed that he had already reached the Dou Saint realm.

• Xiao Jin, Xun Er, and Cai Lin reached the desolate desert and sensed many powerful Dou Zun and Dou Saint experts gathered for the Space Auction.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen unexpectedly met the group at the auction entrance, and Yao Chen realized he could no longer see through Xiao Jin's cultivation.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Jin to guess his cultivation, and Xiao Jin identified him as a Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate before revealing that he had reached the Dou Saint realm.
• Xiao Yan said he had come to obtain a Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and planned to use a Bodhi Pill to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Xiao Xuan had given him wings taken from a Five-Star Dou Saint Late Stage Heavenly Demon Phoenix, which he had spent three months refining.

Xiao Jin’s group reached the Space Auction, where he warned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that the Soul Clan might have prepared an ambush. Xiao Xuan concealed his aura to protect Xiao Yan, and the group entered the Space Wormhole together, arriving in a bustling town.

• Xiao Jin’s group crossed a steep dune and found an enormous Space Wormhole at the desert’s center.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that Venerable Kongxuan had warned him of a possible Soul Clan ambush at the Space Auction.
• Xiao Xuan offered to disguise himself and guard Xiao Yan, and Xiao Jin gave him a Breath-Concealing Pill to suppress his aura.
• The six travelers entered the Space Wormhole together and emerged in a bustling town.

At the Space Auction, Xiao Jin helped Cai Lin acquire a Nine-Colored Primordial Stone for two pills, then used a secret contract invitation to enter the Ancient Treasure Pavilion with her and Xun Er. He left Xiao Yan and the others to attend the auction while he went to investigate the Soul Clan’s trap.

• Xiao Jin bought a Seven-Colored Primordial Stone from an emaciated old man for two Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills, trusting Cai Lin’s judgment.
• Cai Lin dripped her blood onto the stone, causing its markings to reveal that it was a Nine-Colored Primordial Stone.
• The emaciated old man realized he had sold the Nine-Colored Primordial Stone for far less than it was worth and could do nothing about the completed transaction.
• Yao Chen presented an invitation from the Three Great Sects, allowing Xiao Yan and the others to enter the Ancient Treasure Pavilion for the Space Auction.
• Xiao Jin presented a jade contract from Venerable Kongxuan and entered the pavilion with Xun Er and Cai Lin, leaving Xiao Yan and the others behind to investigate the Soul Clan’s trap.

Xiao Jin agreed to oversee the Space Auction only after the three sect leaders gave him information about the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Their account of a black-mist apparition and controlled experts left him suspecting that the tree they had found was connected to something else.

• Xiao Jin met Venerable Kongxuan and the leaders of the Kongxuan Sect, Earth-Walking Sect, and Treasure Appraisal Mountain, who asked him to keep the Space Auction safe from trouble.
• Xiao Jin demanded the Bodhi Ancient Tree information before agreeing to help, and Elder Baoshan relented when Xiao Jin prepared to leave.
• Elder Baoshan said the Earth-Walking Sect had found traces of the Bodhi Ancient Tree about half a year earlier, after which the three sects' investigators disappeared.
• Venerable Kongxuan and Elder Baoshan explained that the missing elders had become controlled experts, joined by more than a hundred Dou Zuns and several Half-Saint Puppets.
• Elder Baoshan described a Bodhi Ancient Tree apparition shrouded in black mist, whose aura differed greatly from the one in the rumors, and Xiao Jin began to suspect its origin.

Xiao Jin suspected that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been split into a benevolent half in his Small World and an evil half on the continent. After agreeing to investigate the claim once the Space Auction ended, he brought Xun Er and Cai Lin to a private room to watch the auction.

• Xiao Jin recalled the Bodhi Ancient Tree's connection to Cang Yuan and reasoned that Cang Yuan might have removed its negative emotions before it entered his Small World.
• Elder Baoshan swore that the three Venerable Kongxuan had told the truth, and Xiao Jin assured them that he would attend the Space Auction.
• Old Monster Earth-Walking escorted Xiao Jin, Xun Er, and Cai Lin to a private room and confirmed that Xiao Jin could bid on auction items.
• Xun Er questioned whether the Bodhi Ancient Tree could control minds, and Xiao Jin explained that the tree on the continent might be its separated negative half.
• Cai Lin volunteered to accompany Xiao Jin when he investigated the Bodhi Ancient Tree after the auction.

Xiao Yan attended the Space Auction, where he acquired the Vajra Glazed Body and saw a fragmented map tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. As the map’s bidding began, Xiao Jin searched for signs of the Soul Clan’s expected attack but detected nothing.

• Elder Baoshan opened the Space Auction and sold a pair of Demon Phoenix Wings for an Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Xuan recommended the Vajra Glazed Body to Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen bid a Low Heaven Tier water-attributed cultivation technique, which the seller accepted.
• Xiao Yan watched the auction progress through a variety of rare treasures and artifacts.
• Elder Baoshan presented a fragmented map connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and began bidding for it.
• Xiao Jin scanned Space Town for the Soul Clan’s presence but found no trace of them and wondered whether their target was elsewhere.

At the Space Auction, Yao Chen and a gaunt old man competed for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map until a bidder on the second floor outbid them with a Nine-Colored medicinal pill and a Hemostasis Pill. Elder Baoshan warned the crowd against provoking the powerful faction behind the bidder, and the map’s sale was completed.

• Bidders raised the price of the Fragmented Map until Yao Chen offered eight Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills with Eight-Colored Pill Lightning.
• The gaunt old man outbid Yao Chen with one Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, leaving Xiao Yan unable to match the offer.
• A voice from the second floor offered a Nine-Colored pill plus a Hemostasis Pill, humiliating the gaunt old man and prompting him to accuse the bidder of causing trouble.
• Elder Baoshan declared the offer a valid bid and warned the crowd that the person on the second floor belonged to a faction they could not afford to provoke.
• The gaunt old man glared toward the second floor as the transaction for the Fragmented Map was completed.

Xiao Jin secured the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for Xiao Yan, then prepared to bid on a Soul Origin that could raise Xiao Yan's soul to Heaven Realm Great Perfection. When Xiao Jin sensed Soul Clan members arriving in Space Town with surprisingly little strength, he wondered what their real plan was.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Jin had found all four Fragmented Maps of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for him, and Xun Er teased Xiao Jin about his generosity.
• Elder Baoshan presented a Soul Origin capable of advancing a Heaven Realm Soul to Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and bidders quickly drove its price up to five Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Jin told Cai Lin to bid up to two Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills for the Soul Origin, then appeared above Space Town with Xun Er after sensing the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Jin discovered that the Soul Clan group was led by only two Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerates, while the Dou Sheng who had previously threatened the three sects was absent.

Cai Lin won the Soul Origin at auction with a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill while Xiao Jin confronted the Soul Clan’s forces above Space Town. After learning the Soul Hall had consigned the Soul Origin and questioning why the Soul Clan had threatened the three sects, Xiao Jin killed another Soul Clan member, leaving its true objective unresolved.

• Cai Lin bid one Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill for the Soul Origin, and Elder Baoshan awarded it to her.
• A Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate from the Soul Clan greeted Xiao Jin, who crushed him with a single gesture.
• Xiao Jin demanded to know why the Soul Clan had come, and its surviving Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate claimed they had come to collect what the Soul Hall had consigned.
• Xiao Jin realized the Soul Hall could have produced the Soul Origin through its long history of capturing souls and wondered what the Soul Clan’s real plan was.
• Xiao Jin asked why the Soul Clan had threatened the three sects, and the Peak Nine-Turn Dou Venerate laughed that the Soul Hall had threatened plenty of people before Xiao Jin killed him.

Xiao Jin interrogated the Soul Clan members after suspecting they had framed him with the three sects, while Venerable Kongxuan offered the Soul Origin and a refund to prove the sects were uninvolved. At the Space Auction, Elder Baoshan announced the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s return, setting powerful figures buzzing over the news.

• Xiao Jin suspected the Kongxuan Sect and the other two sects had colluded with the Soul Hall, and Venerable Kongxuan denied their involvement and offered to return the Soul Origin and Xiao Jin’s chips.
• Venerable Kongxuan confirmed that a Dou Saint from the Soul Hall had threatened the three sects, not the Soul Clan members present.
• Xiao Jin extracted a Soul Clan Dou Venerate’s soul to search for answers, found no relevant information, and destroyed him before turning to another target.
• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again after a thousand years, shocking the auction attendees.
• Cai Lin suspected Elder Baoshan had withheld the tree’s dangers to draw powerhouses into a conflict that could benefit the three sects.

Xiao Jin finished interrogating the Soul Clan Dou Venerates and secured Venerable Kongxuan’s allegiance, while the Space Auction revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would emerge in the deadly Wild Wilderness. Xiao Yan considered asking Xiao Jin for help pursuing the Bodhi Heart.

• Xiao Jin tortured and killed the remaining Soul Clan Dou Venerates, then warned Venerable Kongxuan that his three sects would suffer the same fate if they colluded with the Soul Hall.
• Venerable Kongxuan swore loyalty to the Pill Tower and promised to return the pills Xiao Jin had paid for.
• Xiao Jin returned to the private room, where Xun Er told Cai Lin what had happened.
• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would emerge in the Wild Wilderness on the northeastern border of the Central Plains.
• Yao Chen described the Wild Wilderness as a forbidden land filled with poisonous miasma and powerful Fierce Beasts, then urged Xiao Yan to seek the Bodhi Heart.
• Xiao Yan considered discussing the Bodhi Ancient Tree with Xiao Jin before entering the dangerous Wild Wilderness.

Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan the completed Fragmented Map and a Soul Origin, then confronted the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts when they tried to ambush the group. After the trio leered at Xun Er and Cai Lin, Xiao Jin tortured them with his Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and shattered their dantians.

• Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan the completed Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and a pure Soul Origin, which could help him reach Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Xiao Jin and Xiao Xuan sensed three pursuers approaching, and Xiao Jin identified them as members of the Cloud Rain Sect, which cultivated by draining young women’s battle qi.
• Yao Chen offered to deal with the attackers, but Xiao Jin and Xiao Yan arranged to fight them; Xiao Jin told Xiao Yan to use a Heavenly Flame to reveal the Fragmented Map’s secret.
• The Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts landed and insulted Xiao Yan while leering at Xun Er and Cai Lin, so Xiao Jin changed his mind and decided to take them all on.
• Xiao Jin burned the three men with his Reincarnation Nirvana Flame, shattered their dantians, and considered asking the Kongxuan Sect to spread the news.

Xiao Jin prepared for the dangers surrounding the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Wild Wilderness while giving Xiao Yan a Bodhi Heart to help him advance toward Dou Saint. The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed that Xiao Yi Xian had emerged from seclusion, though she had not yet come to see Xiao Jin.

• Xiao Jin told the Pill Tower Ancestor that the Soul Clan had sent only a Dou Zun to the Space Auction and discussed their possible plans involving the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor reported that the Wild Wilderness had become so dangerous that even a Two-Star Dou Saint had died there, and Xiao Jin explained the Bodhi Heart's benefits to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan a Bodhi Heart and told him to remain at the Pill Tower, refine it, and reach Dou Saint before attempting to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Jin said Xun Er and Cai Lin would accompany him to the Wild Wilderness, while he would leave the Pill Tower forces behind to prevent the Soul Clan from causing trouble.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that Xiao Yi Xian had emerged from seclusion, surprising him because she had not come to see him.

Xiao Yi Xian returned from three months of seclusion with the Woe Poison Body mastered and her strength greatly increased, then joined Xiao Jin’s planned trip to the Wild Wilderness. That night, she confessed that she was no longer afraid her poison would hurt him, and Xiao Jin understood her intentions.

• Xiao Yi Xian refined the Bodhi Heart, passed the Hundred-Life Reincarnation trial, mastered Su Min’s battle arts, and reached the Five-Star Dou Saint Initial Stage.
• Cai Lin refined her Bodhi Heart and reached the Six-Star Dou Saint Initial Stage, but she did not trigger the Hundred-Life Reincarnation trial.
• Xiao Jin confirmed with the Pill Tower Ancestor that Xiao Yi Xian would join the group traveling to the Wild Wilderness in three days.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Jin she had already arranged to travel with them and that her Woe Poison Body could help against the wilderness’s miasmas and venomous insects.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Xiao Jin around midnight, embraced and kissed him, and told him her mastered Woe Poison Body would not harm him if they went further.

Xiao Jin and the three women traveled to Wilderness Town, drawn by the Bodhi Ancient Tree's appearance in the Wild Wilderness. They settled into the crowded town for the night, planning to enter the wilderness the next morning.

• Xiao Jin asked Xiao Yi Xian to rest before their journey, and she accepted his explanation shyly.
• Xiao Jin and the three women traveled for two days toward the Wild Wilderness, where crowds of cultivators were gathering to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xun Er remarked on the Bodhi Ancient Tree's power to make someone a Dou Saint, and the group arrived at Wilderness Town.
• Xiao Jin and the women rented the inn's last available room and discussed how merchants were profiting from the sudden influx of visitors.
• Xiao Jin told the women to rest, saying they would enter the Wild Wilderness the next morning.

Xiao Jin and the three women crossed the Wild Wilderness, surviving poisonous insects and ancient Fierce Beasts as they searched for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. They encountered Nalan Yanran and the Flower Sect being pursued, and Xiao Jin sent North Dragon King to rescue them.

• Xiao Jin led Cai Lin, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian into the forest after waiting for the first wave of cultivators to enter.
• Xiao Jin warned the women about the deadly poisonous insects as they crossed the poisonous mist and found many dead cultivators.
• Xiao Jin used a Bodhi Seed but could not sense the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then guided the group across the abyss while Dragon King Puppets guarded them from Fierce Beasts.
• Xiao Jin and the women left the forest without conflict with other groups, and Xiao Jin used Heavenly Flame to cleanse the Dragon King Puppets of blood and insects.
• Xiao Jin recognized Nalan Yanran among the Flower Sect group fleeing ancient Magical Beasts and ordered North Dragon King to kill their pursuers.